Towards the end of the call, after half of the participants had dropped off, we discussed what to discuss next and when to meet again. We settled on the following
- We will be discussing the 2015 Policy on Collaborative Application Development by Opening the Source Code of Government Applications. It’s a 12 page policy document and feels like a good next step
- We will be meeting one month from now, during the first week of November. Likely 3rd/4th of Nov (Monday/Tuesday) between 7-8:30 PM. 9-10:30 PM was incredibly inconvenient for most of the attendees, and it likely prevented a lot of people from participating
If you’re interested in participating in the next reading group call, please share your thoughts about the topic/policy and the timings. In the meanwhile, participate in the discussion on the “Policy on Adoption of OSS for GoI” forum topic.
P.S. The only official govt. link to the policy document I could find was in the openforge website - FAQ - OpenForge - under “Q: Does the Government of India have a policy for open source software?”. The link points to a slideshare page, and downloading the policy document requires a paid subscription to slideshare 